Elizabeth (musical)
Elizabeth is also over eight million spectators the most successful German-language musical. It describes the life of the Austrian empress Elisabeth and Gemahlin Franz Josephs as dead dance.
The premiere found at the 3. September 1992 in the theatre at that Vienna instead of and ran there for many years. The resumption of piece of success in Vienna in the autumn 2003 for two years celebrated the Austrian post office with a special mark. The musical is for now 12 years a large success, had in February 1996 in Japan in Osaka premiere and to today 1.5 million visitor reached there. Further productions of the musical there were in Hungary (Szeged, Budapest, since 1996), Sweden (Karlstad, 1999), Holland (Scheveningen, 1999/2000) as well as Germany (meal 2001-2003 and Stuttgart, March 2005 - autumn 2006) and Finland (Turku, September 2005). To reached it today more than 8 million visitor world-wide. The music composed Sylvester Levay, the libretto comes from Michael Kunze. Direction led Harry copper.
action
the musical describes the life of the Austrian empress from the view of its assassin Lucheni, to that it to 10. September 1898 firstoh. Michael Kunze tried to describe in the libretto on the one hand Elizabeth as a modern woman (I hearing only me) to become fair and the plateful Sissi films on the basis the newest research their actual character with its escape mechanisms and its death longing on the other hand faraway. Death appears it as a well looking young man and becomes their secret loving, for which it cannot decide however for a long time. At the end the murder by Lucheni and the embrace are described by death as Happy ending. Beyond that the musical describes also Zeitumstände such as Dekadenz, arising nationalism and Antisemitismus, revolution. In one in the course of the years version tried the authors extended to leave also to the mother-in-law Sophie more justice happened.
actor
- Maya Hakvoort (Elizabeth in Vienna)
- Pia Douwes (Ur-Elizabeth, Elisabeth in Vienna, Schevingen and Essen)
- Maike Boerdam (Elizabeth in meals and Stuttgart)
- Kristin Hölck (Elizabeth in meal)
- Susa Meyer (Elizabeth in Vienna)
- Jasna Ivir (Elizabeth in Vienna)
- Patricia Nessy (Elizabeth in Vienna)
- Wietske van Tongeren (Elizabeth in Vienna and Stuttgart)
- Viktor Gernot (Ur-Franz Joseph in Vienna)
- André farmer (Franz Joseph in meals and Vienna)
- Michael Lewis (Franz Joseph in meal)
- Uwe Kröger (Ur-death, in Vienna and meal)
- Paul Kribbe (death in Vienna)
- Máté Kamarás (death in Vienna)
- Stanley Burleson (death in Schevingen)
- Olegg Vynnyk (death in Stuttgart)
- Ethan Freeman (Ur-Lucheni in Vienna)
- Thomas Borchert (Lucheni in Vienna)
- Serkan Kaya (Lucheni in Vienna)
- Alex milk ago (Lucheni in meal)
- Carsten Lepper (Lucheni in meals and Stuttgart)
- Andy Bieber (Ur-Crown Prince Rudolf in Vienna)
- Martin Pasching (Crown Prince Rudolf in meals and Stuttgart)
- Jesper Tydén (Crown Prince Rudolf in Vienna and meal, death in meal)
- Lukas Perman (Crown Prince Rudolf in Vienna)
- Ross Antony (Crown Prince Rudolf in Stuttgart)
- Else Ludwig (Ur-Erzherzogin Sophie in Vienna)
- Gabriele ram (ore duchess Sophie in meals)
- Lenneke Willemsen (ore duchess Sophie in Vienna)
- Annika Bruhns (duchess Ludovika/Mrs. Wolf in meal)
- Luzia Nistler (duchess Ludovika/Mrs. Wolf in Vienna)
- Kaspar cross-beam gust (duke max in meals)
